By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo and Michael Rios (CNN) — A Colombian congresswoman whose conservative party is closely aligned with the right-wing ideologies of US President Donald Trump says her son was detained last month by ICE agents amid the US crackdown on immigration. Ángela Vergara says she decided to go public with the case last week
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The whole mountain rumbles when an avalanche rolls off it. The swirling, whirling mass approaches like a steam train, picking up thousands of tons of matter on its descent, throwing clouds of snow into the air as its gathers speeds of up to 130 kph (80 mph). They are
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NEVADA CITY, Ca. (CNN) — Just six weeks after Bend resident and snowmobiler Chris Thomason of Thomason Auto Group, was killed in an avalanche in California’s Sierra Nevada, another deadly slide in nearly the same area has claimed more lives. Authorities in Nevada County confirmed Saturday that search crews recovered the bodies of nine skiers
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. government agencies to release files related to alien life and unidentified flying objects. It’s unclear what information the records contain or when they’ll be made public. The directive marks one of the most significant steps toward government transparency on extraterrestrial research, an issue that has long
Continue ReadingBy Sophia Saifi, CNN Islamabad (CNN) — Pakistan said Sunday it carried out airstrikes on militant camps across the border in Afghanistan, in a serious test of an uneasy peace between the neighbors. Pakistan’s information ministry said its military conducted “intelligence-based, selective operations” against seven camps belonging to militants it blames for a recent series
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By Victoria Butenko and Rhea Mogul, Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Kyiv (CNN) — At least one person was killed and dozens more wounded in explosions that hit the western Ukrainian city of Lviv early Sunday, in what authorities have labeled a “terrorist attack.” A 23-year-old policewoman was killed in the attack, while a patrol car and
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By Tim Lister and Farida Elsebai, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff has said that Trump is “curious” as to why Iran has not yet “capitulated” and agreed to curb its nuclear program, as rallies have taken place at universities in the Iranian capital, Tehran, for the second day. “I don’t
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, Yoonjung Seo, Gawon Bae, CNN (CNN) — It took just 11 days for South Korean lawmakers to impeach former President Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial law and threatened to unravel decades of hard-won democracy. Now, 14 months after that ill-fated announcement, which led to lawmakers forcing their way past soldiers
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By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — The US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has said it would be “fine” if Israel took control of a vast swathe of the Middle East, drawing a swift rebuke from regional and other majority-Muslim states. Suggesting even nominal support for Israeli sovereignty over much of the Middle East is
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By Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN (CNN) — More than four decades after a teenager was murdered in California, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer. Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend’s house in Cloverdale, California, on the evening of May 23, 1982. The next morning, a firefighter
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By Tim Lister, CNN (CNN) — The death of a far-right activist in France after a street brawl earlier this month has deepened political polarization in the country as elections loom – and sparked criticism from the Trump administration. French President Emmanuel Macron called for calm ahead of rallies planned Saturday by far-right groups in
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — The eight friends found joy in the mountains, skiing together across the untracked powder of the hushed, pristine wilderness of California’s Sierra Nevada – their close friendship standing out against a rugged, unforgiving terrain. The trip had been planned well in advance: A three-day expedition that began at Frog
Continue ReadingBy Matthew Chance, Chief Global Affairs Correspondent, CNN (CNN) — In the early hours of February 24 2022, standing on the freezing roof of a hotel in Kyiv, the idea that Russia would launch a full-scale assault on Ukraine, despite a troop buildup on the border, still seemed almost impossible to imagine. Yes, Vladimir Putin,
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — A man has been charged with committing a hate crime after a car smashed into the gates of the biggest synagogue in Brisbane, the latest of a series of attacks on Australia’s Jewish community. The attack follows a string of assaults on Jewish people and their religious establishments in
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By Alaa Elassar, Bill Kirkos, CNN (CNN) — A driver is dead after he rammed a vehicle through the gate of a power substation in Boulder City, Nevada, on Thursday in what authorities are investigating as a terrorism-related event, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The driver, who was found with a self-inflicted
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By Alexandra Skores, Aaron Cooper, CNN Washington (CNN) — It was not a mistake to close the airspace around El Paso, Texas, last week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at a news conference Friday afternoon. He declined to share details about what happened and the subsequent finger pointing, saying he would speak to Congress before
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Some people will go to extreme lengths to avoid paying for regular garbage collection – and sometimes they enlist help from man’s best friend. Authorities in Sicily, Italy, have released footage of a dog carrying garbage to a rogue land dump near Catania. The cunning canine can
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By Lauren Kent, CNN London (CNN) — Most days, the country’s top newspapers have a wide range of photos gracing their front pages. But on Friday, every image topping the British front pages was identical: A snap of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, slouched in the back of a car, looking shell-shocked on his 66th birthday as he
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By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, James Frater, CNN London (CNN) — Slouched in the back of a car, wide-eyed and unnerved, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor makes his way home from the police station. It’s an image that was splashed across pretty much every UK newspaper on Friday morning, a day after the brother of King Charles III was arrested
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By Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Deborah Polhamus, the maternal grandmother of teenage school shooter Colt Gray, testified Friday that the teen’s father Colin Gray bought him an AR-15-style rifle as a Christmas gift nine months before the shooting. Polhamus initially said she did not remember if the firearm was kept in Colt Gray’s room,
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